Accession number:
PML 23622
Published:
Zu Strassburg : Gedruckt unnd volendet durch Heinrichen Kloblitzer, Anno d[omi]ni Tusent vierhundert im lxxxiiii jar [1484].
Description:
[58] leaves : ill. (woodcut) ; 28 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased in 1926.
Notes:
Title from leaf a1r.
Colophon (leaf h7v): "Gedruckt unnd volendet durch Heinrichen kloblitzer zu Strassburg Anno d[omi]ni Tusent vierhundert im lxxxiiii jar."
Printed in Knoblochtzer's types 3:96G and 4:120G.
Collation: a⁸ b⁶ c⁸ d⁶ e⁸ f⁶ g-h⁸: 58 leaves, leaf h8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Woodcut author portrait on a1v copied from Buch des edlen Ritters und Landfahrers Marco Polo (Nuremberg: Friedrich Creussner, 1477), ISTC ip00901000; see also Schreiber V, 5385.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.5 x 19.8 cm
PML copy missing 1 leaf: h8 (blank).
Binding:
Modern full green goatskin over paper boards (28.4 x 20.5 cm). Plain paper pastedowns and flyleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges. Gilt-tooled title on spine.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Woodcut on leaf a1v and initial on a2r hand-colored. Annotations: Note added regarding Hanns Tucher, "und die zeit einer des kleinern ratz d[er] stat N." (leaf a2r).
Provenance:
Georg Kloss (1787-1854), bibliographic note (first fly leave verso); Kloss sold part of his collection in 1825 to the London booksellers John Thomas Payne and Robert Foss; John Bellingham Inglis (1780-1870), shelf mark C 113 (leaf a1r) and manuscript notes on Hanns Tucher (third fly leaf recto and leaf a1v); Inglis sale, Sotheby's, 9 June 1826, lot 1591, to Rodd (Thomas Rodd, bookseller?) for £3.0.0; E.P. Goldschmidt & Co., cat. VIII, [1926], lot 94; Pierpont Morgan Library, booklabel (front pastedown), purchased from E.P. Goldschmidt & Co., May 1926.
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